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Public advisory boards for government agencies are commonplace across the country, typically helping state agencies make informed decisions to carry out their public policies and priorities. The Minnesota Health Equity Advisory and Leadership (HEAL) Council is one such board. HEAL makes recommendations on how to implement the Minnesota Department of Health’s equity plan into its […]
RICHMOND, VA; January 24, 2025 – Medical watchdog Do No Harm filed a lawsuit against Dr. Brooke Cunningham, in her official capacity as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Health, over the department advisory council’s discriminatory membership criteria. Currently, Minnesota law requires the Department’s Health Equity Advisory and Leadership Council to include representatives of certain […]
A new federal lawsuit in Minnesota is challenging the racial quotas for membership on the state’s Health Equity Advisory and Leadership, or HEAL, Council, an advisory board tasked with addressing “inequities” in public health policies. In the suit, Do No Harm, a nonprofit organization of medical professionals, argues the quotas violate the equal protection clause of the […]
Legislation introduced in Mississippi would force physicians to undergo implicit bias and “cultural competence” training to renew their license. The bill was introduced by state Rep. Zakiya Summers, who has led campaigns to advance “educational equity, healthcare access, and racial justice.” If enacted, the bill would force physicians or osteopaths in general practice, pediatrics, obstetrics, […]
Indiana is one step closer to enacting legislation cracking down on DEI activities, with a particular focus on medical education and licensing boards. The bill, SB 235, prohibits state agencies from funding DEI offices or employees. Additionally, the bill prohibits the state from handing out contracts or grants to organizations that mandate DEI training. As […]
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump ordered that starting Wednesday, all federal staff working on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion activities will immediately be put on paid leave. That announcement came via a memo from the Office of Personnel Management, essentially the federal government’s human resources department. According to the memo, all DEI offices will […]
In a bid to promote “equity” and “inclusion”, many medical schools have instead returned to segregation. Schools across the country promote race-based “affinity” and engagement groups that are targeted toward students and faculty of certain races. These groups are explicitly intended to promote the interests of favored racial groups. For example, a flyer obtained by […]
RICHMOND, VA; January 22, 2025 – President Trump has issued an executive order targeting DEI’s clutch on federal agencies and publicly funded institutions, including medical schools and associations. The order requires “all executive departments and agencies to terminate all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and requirements.” […]
On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at tackling DEI in the private sector and enforcing compliance with the Supreme Court’s ruling that race-based university admissions are illegal. The executive order has enormous ramifications for medical schools, medical associations, and other healthcare institutions. Many of its broader provisions will directly impact the medical […]
The Trump administration will be placing all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) officials on paid leave by the end of the business day Wednesday, a document from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) says. The OPM memo, which is being sent to the executive agencies as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive order “Ending Radical and Wasteful […]
RICHMOND, VA; January 21, 2025 – Today, Do No Harm published a report titled “Skirting SCOTUS: How Medical Schools Will Continue to Practice Racially Conscious Admissions.” The report, a follow-up to Do No Harm’s first “Skirting SCOTUS” report, reveals evidence that medical schools have continued to use race-based admissions after the Supreme Court ruled in […]
Since the publication of the Cass Review, an exhaustive review of gender medical services in the United Kingdom that found “remarkably weak evidence” to support the use of puberty blockers and hormone treatments for gender-distressed children, many who are committed to so-called “gender-affirming care” have attempted to downplay its findings. The latest salvo comes from […]
A new report conducted by nonprofit organization Do No Harm (DNH) is sounding the alarm on medical schools allegedly “skirting” a 2023 Supreme Court ruling rejecting the use of race-based factors in admissions. DNH says it “represents physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and policymakers” in an effort to keep “identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical […]
In the 2023 case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA), the U.S. Supreme Court determined that race-based college admissions violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Unfortunately, as Do No Harm reported previously, reactions from medical school leaders and medical organizations hinted that some […]
On Monday, President Trump signed several executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the federal government. The most comprehensive executive order, Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing, directed the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management to terminate “all discriminatory programs,” including DEI mandates and […]
Over the last decade or so, many of the chief culprits responsible for advancing DEI initiatives in the medical field have been federal health agencies. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is no exception, pushing guidelines requiring diversity commitments in grant applications to outright funding DEI initiatives. By manning the faucet of federal funding that […]
The University of Washington’s medical school recently decided to rename its “BIPOC Physicians Directory” into the “MD Connections Directory,” thus removing the reference to a left-wing racial buzzword in the title of its program. The school also began advertising that the program is not only available to “Black, Indigenous, and People of Color” but is, […]
President-elect Donald Trump promised throughout his campaign to dismantle the transgender agenda by taking actions to protect women’s sports, remove gender ideology from schools and limit access to dangerous sex change procedures. On the first day of his second term, Trump has the opportunity to roll back the Biden administration’s four year attempt to weave […]